The American Bishops Protest

As debate over U.S. policy in El Salvador has intensified, the National
Conference of Catholic Bishops has emerged as a highly vocal opponent
of the Reagan Administration's position. The American bishops are
against all forms of military aid to El Salvador and favor a negotiated
settlement between that country's ruling junta and its left-wing
guerrillas.

Other clergy have also spoken out against the
Administration. Last week a group of more than 350 church leaders, most
of them Protestant but including Catholics and Jews, called for an end
to U.S. military aid to El...